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How many dependencies does your development eco system have?

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/02/03

About 5 years after the disaster around npm and left-pad, I wonder

  1. how many dependencies on packages or libraries your software has,
  2. how many of them have a good or excellent test suite,
  3. how many of these you are in full control of determining the exact version used and the location it is uses from.

The disaster was well phrased in [WayBack] NPM & left-pad: Have We Forgotten How To Program? – David Haney – Blogging my experiences as a developer and engineering manager. of which these topics:

  • Functions are not packages
  • Third party problems
  • Strive for few dependencies

and these quotes:

  • React, Babel, and a bunch of other high-profile packages on NPM broke. The reason they broke is rather astounding:A simple NPM package called left-pad that was a dependency of their code.
  • some of the things that I observed:
    • There’s a package called isArray that has 880,000 downloads a day, and 18 million downloads in February of 2016. It has 72 dependent NPM packages. Here’s its entire 1 line of code:return toString.call(arr) == '[object Array]';
    • There’s a package called is-positive-integer (GitHub) that is 4 lines long and as of yesterday required 3 dependencies to use. The author has since refactored it to require 0 dependencies, but I have to wonder why it wasn’t that way in the first place.
    • A fresh install of the Babel package includes 41,000 files
    • A blank jspm/npm-based app template now starts with 28,000+ files
  • frameworks create a “core” library of basic functionality. Such a library is vetted by the creators of the language and pretty much guaranteed to be correct and bug-free.
  • if you cannot write a left-pad, is-positive-integer, or isArray function in 5 minutes flat (including the time you spend Googling), then you don’t actually know how to code. Any of these would make a great code screening interview question to determine whether or not a candidate can code.
  • Take on a dependency for any complex functionality that would take a lot of time, money, and/or debugging to write yourself. Things like a database access layer (ORM) or caching client should be dependencies because they’re complicated and the risk of the dependency is well worth the savings and efficiency.
  • ask the React team how well their week has been going, and whether they wish they had written those 11 lines for left-padding a string themselves.

Via: [WayBack] “There’s a package called isArray that has 880,000 downloads a day, and 18 million downloads in February of 2016. It has 72 dependent NPM packages. Here… – Elke Stangl (elkement) – Google+

Related:

–jeroen

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Spinettaro’s Blog: Delphi Flux application architecture

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/16

On my list of things to try: [WayBack] Spinettaro’s Blog: Delphi Flux application architecture.

It is about a Delphi implementation of the Facebook Flux application architecture.

Related:

Via: [WayBack] Delphi Flux application architecture A good application architecture Finding a good application architecture is not easy, but defining an architecture f… – Daniele Spinetti – Google+

Note that by using the [WayBack] CodeRage 2018 Replay | Embarcadero Academy, you are disallowed using any of what you learn in a commercial way.

Embarcadero evangelists told the public that for the Community Edition, similar terms would not be upheld, but then the sales department started sending out nasty emails to people registering Community Edition using their work email address.

[WayBack] https://www.embarcaderoacademy.com/p/terms:

under this license you may not:

  1. modify or copy the materials;
  2. use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
  3. attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on the School’s web site;
  4. remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
  5. transfer the materials to another person or ‘mirror’ the materials on any other server.

–jeroen

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Kristian Köhntopp had an interesting JOINs go when moving from monolithic to microservicecs (i.e. when customers and orders are in separate services)

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/19

is a summary of:

[WayBack] Thread by @isotopp: Are you a Developer and understand (Micro-) Services? I am a database person and a bit simple, and I have a genuine Question: When moving to…

Are you a Developer and understand (Micro-) Services? I am a database person and a bit simple, and I have a genuine Question:

When moving to a services architecture, where do the JOINs go?

So you sell stuff, that is you have an orders table o, with an oid, which stores a customer id cid from a customers c table, and an article id aid, from an articles table and a count cnt.
customer 17 ordered 3 45’s:
? SELECT cnt
> FROM o JOIN c ON o.cid = c.cid
> AND o.aid = a.aid
> WHERE c.cid = 17;= 3
When moving to services, because you are multibillion dollar enterprise, your customers, orders and articles can no longer fit into a single database, and there are other reasons to have an OrderService, CustomerService and ArticleService.

You still want to ask something (OrderService?) about the number of 45’s that 17 ordered.

Who do you ask? What does this do to connect the dots? How do you do reporting (“Show me all top 10 articles by country, zipcode digit 1 by week over the last 52w”)?

Do you reimplement join algorithms by hand in application code? Are there supporting tools? Do you reimplement data warehousing aggregations, too?
If so, what tooling for reporting does exist, and how does that compare to eg existing tooling for data warehousing?

Some of the reactions on Twitter are below

–jeroen

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Mark Struberg on Twitter: “My key takaway is: “You can fix most conceptual problems of a Monolith by converting to MicroServices. And you can fix most conceptual problems of MicroServices by making a Monolith out of it”.

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/09/10

I wonder what the state of monoliths versus microservices is right now. Likely somewhere in the middle of SOA and Client/Server (:

[WayBack] Mark Struberg on Twitter: <<My key takaway is: “You can fix most conceptual problems of a Monolith by converting to MicroServices. And you can fix most conceptual problems of MicroServices by making a Monolith out of it”.… >>

–jeroen

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hexagonal architecture – Google Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/18

On my research list: read more about hexagonal architecture – Google Search.

Like:

Related: [WayBack] Learned today: In the praxis most domains are way more than sufficiently complex… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+

I think I like a round diagrams better than hexagonal ones, because it gives more clarity to me.

Also on my list:

–jeroen

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